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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: September 2007
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. September 28, 2007. NEW FORMAT FOR MONTH OF OCTOBER. For the month of October, we will welcome science students from Shippensburg University. Who will be participating in our online discussion of "The Sea Around Us" as part of an innovative course inspired by Rachel Carson and developed by the University’s science department faculty. Special thanks go to our moderator Jim Lynch. Have a look at the Reading Schedule. September 25, 2007. The theme of spiritualit...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: Comments by Moderator Tom Schaefer
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. November 26, 2007. Comments by Moderator Tom Schaefer. The Good Fairy's Blessing. If I had influence with the good fairy., I should ask that her gift to. Each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it. Would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote to boredom. And disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with. Things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. The Sense of Wonder. Oh And...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: Archived Discussion - Open Again for Comments
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. June 13, 2011. Archived Discussion - Open Again for Comments. Greetings Rachel Carson readers! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Field Notes from the Sea Around Us. Blog will continue through December 2007. Field Notes from The Sea Around Us Blog. Where Shippenburg University faculty and students have posted their observations and reflections. To see conservation in action. Discussion of Rachel Carson's writings. Book Club Readings and Schedules. National C...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: July 2007
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. July 27, 2007. Remarks by Moderator Patricia DeMarco. Rachel Carson's Environmental Ethic. As you read this wonderful first published book by Rachel Carson, you can recognize the themes of her core environmental ethic which infused all of her work and drove the major action of her life. Rachel Carson's basic environmental ethic can be simply distilled into four concepts:. Live in harmony with nature. Preserve and learn from natural places. Give a very persona...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: April 2007
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. April 23, 2007. Comments by Moderator Tom Dunlap. Some environmentalists seized on Carson's prescriptions to argue that ecology would lead us into the Earthly Paradise of harmony with nature. While that would be an improvement over the one promised in the ads- the Earthly Paradise of Consumer Goods- Carson had a different message: of humility in the face of forces larger and older than humans. On that see her article, "Help Your Child to Wonder,". I would sug...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: That special gift
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. November 11, 2007. If the moon is full.then the way is open for another adventure with your child. The sport of watching migrating birds pass across the face of the moon has become popular and even scientifically important in recent years, and it is as good a way as I know to give an older child a sense of the mystery of migration. Rachel Carson in The Sense of Wonder. I have two copies of The Sense of Wonder. Were published during Carson's lifetime. The ...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: Opening Remarks by Moderator Tom Schaefer
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. November 1, 2007. Opening Remarks by Moderator Tom Schaefer. If a child is to keep alive his sense of wonder…he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.”. From Rachel Carson’s. The Sense of Wonder. About that same time, Apollo 8 became the first manned space flight to the moon. I know I've read somewhere that the first picture of Earthrise taken from lun...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: May 2007
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. May 27, 2007. Rachel Carson Turns 100 Today. Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. Attended and made remarks at the Rachel Carson birthday celebration at the Homestead in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27. He later sent the following special essay entitled " Rachel Carson Turns 100 Today. See also Larry's blog at http:/ nwf.blogs.com/nwf view/. Greetings from Springdale, Pennsylvania. As folks at this event sit down to pay t...
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog: March 2007
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Welcome to the Rachel Carson Centennial Blog. March 23, 2007. Moderator's Comments from Deanne Urmy. Thank you Linda Lear for nearly a month's worth of erudite and provocative comments on Rachel Carson's life and work and its implications for life on our planet today. And thanks to all of you who have been weighing in. I've just finished work as in-house editor at Houghton Mifflin for. Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson. Today, writer...
